Kumait III (Bed 11, 115-125cm) (Jurassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.2° W: paleocoordinates 52.3° N, 6.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Uptonia jamesoni ammonoid zone, Jamesoni (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, sandy limestone

• shaly limestone (breccia of shells in fossiliferous section)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Rosenkrantz

• Repository: (presumed) University of Coppenhagen

Primary reference: A. Rosenkrantz. 1942. The Lower Jurassic Rocks of East Greenland Part II The Mesozoic Sediments of the Kap Hope Area Southern Liverpool Land. Meddelelser Om Gronland 110(2):5-55 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162275: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 21.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae
Uptonia jamesoni Sowerby 1827 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
 Carditida - Hippopodiidae
Hippopodium ponderosum Sowerby 1819 clam
 Carditida - Cardiniidae
Cardinia hybrida Sowerby 1817 clam
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Myoconcha decorata Münster 1837 clam
 Cardiida - Quenstedtiidae
Quenstedtia ? sp. Morris 1854 clam
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Tancredia sp. Lycett 1850 clam
Tancredia n. sp. A
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
 Pterioida - Prospondylidea
Terquemia pectiniformis Eudes-Deslongchamps 1860 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea cymbium Lamarck 1819 oyster
Gryphaea arcuata Lamarck 1801 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys cf. textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
Chlamys substriata Roemer 1835 scallop
Chlamys substriata rinki
"Aequipecten priscus" = Pecten priscus Schlotheim 1820 scallop
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inaequivalvis" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inaequivalvis" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis minuta Lundgren 1895 scallop
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Gastropoda
 Ptychomphaloidea - Ptychomphalidae